Waar opened on the first day of Eid al-Adha on 42 screens, the widest
release ever, across Pakistan with 100% occupancy: It broke records with
capacity audiences. It earned ₨1.14 crore (US$110,000) in its first day,
breaking the previous record of ₨0.9 crore (US$88,000) held by Chennai Express.
It earned ₨4.26 crore (US$420,000) till Friday night, breaking all previous
records of Eid collections. Waar collected ₨9.7 crore (US$950,000) in its
extended first week of nine days and added another ₨3.7 crore (US$360,000),
thus making a total of ₨13 crore (US$1.3 million) in thirteen days. The film
managed to collect ₨1.9 crore (US$190,000) in its 4th week but was still behind
Syed Noor's 1998 Choorian, which earned ₨20 crore (US$2.0 million) and then on
its 36th day of screening, it broke the record held by Choorian.
The movie had collected ₨20.9 crore (US$2.1 million) in seven weeks. In
its eighth week the movie got advantage of ban of Hindi films in Pakistan and
collected ₨0.6 crore (US$59,000) to take its total to ₨21.5 crore (US$2.1
million). In its 9th Week movie saw a huge competition in the form of Dhoom 3
but still added another ₨0.52 crore (US$51,000). Movie continued its steady run
in next Weeks and ended its run around ₨23 crore (US$2.3 million) becoming
biggest grosser in Pakistan at that time and worldwide collection ₨40 crore
(US$3.9 million). The domestic box office collection of was later broken by
Dhoom 3 (released in December 2013) which grossed ₨24.5 crore (US$2.4 million)
in Pakistan.
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